On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I felt the hand and the call of God in my life that I would be doing ministry and trying to serve Him the best that I could.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

If you asked me to seriously kiss someone on a screen, I would be very uncomfortable. But I will lick any part of your face.

I'm interested in the theater because I'm interested in communication with audiences. Otherwise I would be in concert music.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.

What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

My feeling would be that you lose something of the beauty of the Premiership by joining something not defined at the moment.

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives.

You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.

I have not watched WAGs World, I have not watched the BBC's Upstairs, Downstairs, either. It would be Downton Abbey, I think.

I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court.

Douglas Carswell accused all political parties of "deliberately cultivating the impression" that there would be a referendum.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.

You know what would help the instruction form? Verbs! Verbs would be nice! Because they help you get to the end of a thought!

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and put me out of my misery.

Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

What would make it very difficult to take society back to a repressive time would be technology. The arrival of the Internet.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

Having a clone would make it so much easier - it would be great to send a clone to a TV station when I have to get up at 4am.

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralise the long-range effects of our national stupidity

Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen, and ballerinas.

Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious.

Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

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